TheaterJanuary 2013 I, bureaucrat On Glengarry Glen Ross, Channeling Kevin Spacey, and The Anarchist.
A bunch of dodgy real estate and questionable business dealings, untenable fiscal positions, a Darwinian struggle for scarce resources, and, somewhere offstage, an executive so detached from reality that he treats the human race like a kid with an ant farm: What took so long to arrange a revival of Glengarry Glen Ross? (Or another revival, the last one having been in 2005.) You’d think this would have been under way since the fourth quarter of 2008, perhaps with Dick Fuld cast in the role of the hapless Shelley “The Machine” Levene. Rather than one of those real life sad sacks, we have Al Pacino as the saddest specimen among a very sad collecti ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 31 January 2013, on page 49 Copyright © 2013 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/I--bureaucrat-7527
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After getting tossed from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 for throwing another patron's cellphone, Kevin D. Williamson provides coverage of Orphans, Jekyll & Hyde, and Bull: The Bullfight Play. Coverage of Macbeth, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Hands on a Hardbody. On Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, My Name Is Asher Lev, and The Other Place. On The Heiress, Dead Accounts, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. On Grace, Einstein on the Beach, and Krapp's Last Tape.
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